POULTRY FEED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25168, 4 April 1945, Page 6

POULTRY FEED

BRAN AND POLLARD THE YEARLY ALLOCATION, (0.C.) NEW PLYMOUTH. Tuesday Further details of the New Zealand Poultry Board's scheme for the allocation and distribution of bran and pollard to registered poultry-keepers have been received by the Tarannki Feed Distribution Committee. The yearly feed allocation will, as near as possible, go forward in equal monthly shipments. It will be consigned through the usual trade channels, that is, through merchants. The yearly ration for each bird is set out by the board as follows:—Registered flocks of 200 birds and over: Pollard, 251b; bran, 151b. Registered flocks of under 200 birds: Pollard, 151b; bran, 71b. No extra supplies of pollard and bran can be allocated during the chickrearing season and no guarantee can bj given to poultry-keepers for extra supplies for the rearing of surplus perching pullets for sale, or for the rearing of young stock for sale for table use. INTOXICATED IN CAR £SO FINE IMPOSED (0.C.) WHAKATANE. Tuesday Pleading guilty to a charge of driving a motor-car while intoxicated, Albert Thomas Davidson, of Rotorua, was lined £SO by justices in Whakatane. No order was made for cancellation of the driver's licence. Sergeant Farrell stated that accused was travelling along Commerce Street when his car collided with a stationary vehicle. He had stopped a few hundred yards further on, inspected his car and driven on. For accused, Mr Barry said he had not driven on, but had turned round and was proceeding back when he was intercepted. SHORTAGE OF LABOUR KARAPIRO ELECTRIC WORKS (0.C.) HAMILTON, Tuesday "There is a very great need for additional labour, especially trained tradesmen, at the Karapiro hydro-elec-tric works," said Mr C. A. Beaufort, district manpower officer, today. He added that there were 180 vacancies at the works. It was expected that 100 of these would be filled shortly, but skilled artisans were difficult to obtain, owing to the requirements of the State Housing Department. Fifty carpenters, electricians, fitters and plasterers were wanted at Karapiro, said Mr Beaufort. There were also 40 vacancies for women clerical workers, 16 for women in hospitals and 42 for engineering and electrical workers. Freezing works and dairy factory employees were being released to fill some of the vacancies offering, but the demand for labour was greater than the supply. FIRE IN A HOUSE SEVERE DAMAGE CAUSED A two-storey wooden house of 12 rooms at 46 Selwyn Road, Epsom, was severely damaged by fire yesterday afternoon. Several people near by noticed smoke issuing from a bedroom on the second floor and because of the number of alarms given, four engines from different suburban fire stations were sent out shortly after 12.30 p.,m. The fire had a strong hold in the roof when the engines arrived, but it was confined practically to two upstairs bedrooms, wb'.cli were extensively damaged. Part of the roof of the house was cle--stroyed and some of the downstairs rooms were damaged by smoke and water. The house is owned by Mr John Elliot and he and Mrs Elliot were away, on holiday when the fire occurred. TIMBER INDUSTRY STOP-WORK MEETINGS (0.C.) G.REYMOUTH, Tuesday All sawmills from Kumara to Stillwater and along the Otira line to Stillwater will be idle tomorrow, as meetings of union members are to he held in those areas to consider what action is to be taken in connection with the proposed new agreement, on which a satisfactory settlement could not be reached in Conciliation Council proceedings last week at Greymouth. Further meetings will be held in various other grouped areas in the next ten days to hear the opinions of members for submission to the executive of the Timber Workers Union. NO RUAPEHU ACTIVITY There was again no activity on Mount Ruapelm yesterday, according to a reportfrom the Chateau Tongariro late last, night. The last displays were on Sunday night. A partv which climbed the mountain on Monday found no trace of steam in the crater lalce, which -was completely (tfoMv